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Random Trivia For This Title: - The old lady on the airplane is reading a magazine with an ad for the Lethal Weapon videocassette. The visible copy reads: "Armed. Dangerous. And All Yours." Lethal Weapon, Die Hard and Die Hard 2 were Joel Silver productions.
- There is a war reference in each of the first three Die Hard films. This film's references include Marvin mentioning both Iwo Jima and Pearl Harbor and the Commando team reminiscing about Grenada.
- On the NEA airplane, [The Simpsons] episode {There's No Disgrace Like Home} is shown.
- The Spanish title for Die Hard in all of the three movies is, The Glass Jungle, as a reference to the first movie located in a glass skyscraper.
- The scenes with Bruce Willis running through tunnels under the airport were filmed at a water treatment facility near Los Angeles. The facility has miles of underground tunnels, and was also used in Live Free or Die Hard, doubling as the Woodlawn Social Security Administration building.
- It was Renny Harlin's idea that William Sadler, the film's main villain be introduced naked doing martial arts exercises during the film's opening sequence. He would later say that it was "an effective, but unusual way to introduce a character".
- All the airplane landing equipment used by the mercenaries in the church is close to the real equipment used in actual air traffic control towers, but simplified for the film's dramatic and action effects.
- According to John Leguizamo in his autobiography, his role was intended to be much larger until the filmmakers realized how short he was. His part was cut down to one line which was dubbed by someone else.
- This film was originally titled as Die Harder.
- This is Bruce Willis's least favorite film of the original Die Hard trilogy.
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